Chaotic behaviour of the Fourier multipliers on Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type

Abstract: Let $X$ be a Riemannian symmetric space of noncompact type and $T$ be a linear translation-invariant operator which is bounded on $L^p(X)$. We shall show that if $T$ is not a constant multiple of identity then there exist complex constants $z$ such that $zT$ is chaotic on $L^p(X)$ when $p$ is in the sharp range $2<p<\infty$. This vastly generalizes the result that dynamics of the (perturbed) heat semigroup is chaotic on $X$ proved in [15, 17].